How does Meta process United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) counter-notifications?
Meta complies with the notice-and-takedown procedures set out in section 512(c) of the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which applies to content reported and removed for violating US copyrights.
If your content is removed under the DMCA, you'll receive instructions about how to file a counter-notification in the message that we send you. You should only submit a counter-notification if the content was removed because of a mistake or misidentification. Please note that if your content was removed for reasons unrelated to a copyright report, you may not receive a response from us.
When we receive a valid DMCA counter-notification, we forward it to the party that reported the content. The information they receive includes your contact information, which they can use to contact you.
If we provide your counter-notification to the party that reported the content, and they don't notify us that they have filed a court action seeking an order to keep the content down, we will restore or cease disabling eligible content under the DMCA. This process can take up to 14 working days. Please note, in rare instances, we may not be able to restore content because of technical limitations. If this happens, we'll send you an update letting you know you may repost the content at your discretion.
Content that is restored based on a valid DMCA counter-notification will not be counted against you under our Repeat Infringer policy.
